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Plant Physiology & Functional Proteomics group of Iris Finkemeier @uni_muenster. Focus on #PTMs in #plant acclimation #acetylation #organelles #proteomics
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Celebrating my inaugural lecture with @tlvuni.bsky.social and my @uni-muenster.de Biology colleagues! Happy to be part of the Münster Plant Bio community @ifink-lab.bsky.social @schwarzlanderlab.bsky.social 🌱
November 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Postdoc position in my lab in Cologne starting early next year or latest in spring to get this exciting project started.

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November 2, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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🤫Registration for #MBP2026 will start very soon. Please tell all your friends 🌱.
October 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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See you at Palazzo dei Normanni in Palermo for the 2026 Protein Termini Conference | Co- and post-translational modifications | Proteolytic processing and degradation pathways | Microbes, plants, animals #ProteinTermini2026 #Proteostasis #ProteinModifications #PalazzoDeiNormanni #Palermo2026
October 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Impressions from the German Plant Mito Meeting 2025 in Rothenberge. Thanks everybody for the great talks, discussions and a lot of fun! #mitochondria 🌱🍁
October 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Chamber of Secrets?

Kinoshita @strnk17desejp.bsky.social & Finkemeier @ifink-lab.bsky.social present an alternative method to precisely measure CO2 assimilation rate & transpiration of #Arabidopsis leaves in whole-plant chambers

Open Access🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...

#PlantPhysiology
#PlantScience
Figure 1 from Kinoshita and Finkemeier article showing gas-exchange measurements of petiole-cut Arabidopsis leaves in the whole plant chambers of the LI-6800 system. Panel A shows a schematic diagram of the method i.e. petiole cutting on wet paper and insertion of leaves into a parafilm-sealed dish containing water. Panels B-E are graphs that show C02 assimilation and transpiration rates under different conditions tested
September 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Professorship in Plant Genetics at Kiel University, Germany

The Botanical Institute at Kiel University invites applications for a W2 Professorship in Plant Genetics. Focus: stress responses, epigenetics, and plant-environment interactions. Apply by 19 October 2025.
Professorship in Plant Genetics at Kiel University, Germany
The Botanical Institute at Kiel University invites applications for a W2 Professorship in Plant Genetics. Focus: stress responses, epigenetics, and plant-environment interactions. Apply by 19 October 2025.
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September 28, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Celebrating the successful PhD defense of Dr Jie Shen! Thank you 🙏 to the second and third examiners @schwarzland_lab and @shuqing_xu and many congratulations, Jie !! 👏🍾 very much looking forward to seeing your amazing work published. Stay tuned! @IFink_lab @uni_muenster
September 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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We are deeply saddened by the news that Andrew D. Hanson (@adhansonlab.bsky.social) is no longer with us. He was an exceptional scientist, mentor, and leader in multiple fields. He constantly reminded us that over-promising would backfire. Rest in peace, Andrew.
September 3, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Thrilled to share our latest short technical paper in PCP!
We propose an alternative leaf-level gas exchange measurement method with petiole-cut leaves and whole plant chamber, enabling the measurements even with the small Arabidopsis plants.🌱
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Letter to the editor: a robust technique for gas exchange measurements using petiole-cut Arabidopsis leaves in a whole plant chamber
Satoru Naganawa Kinoshita, Iris Finkemeier; Letter to the editor: a robust technique for gas exchange measurements using petiole-cut Arabidopsis leaves in
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July 29, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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other community members e.g., studying proteostasis, protein quality mechanism, and retrograde signaling. We hope you enjoy reading our preprint. Thank you.
March 9, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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we find evidence that mistranslation in wild-type plants varies under stress conditions. This suggests that optimization of protein synthesis may improve plant stress tolerance. Moreover, the initial discovery of a hypermistranslating Arabidopsis mutant will benefit
March 9, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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mistranslation was unknown. We isolated a Q➡️E hypermistranslating Arabidopsis mutant and show that plant cells are highly tolerant towards Q➡️E mistranslation in mitochondrial- and plastid-expressed proteins and even incorporate Q➡️E altered peptides into the photosynthetic machinery. Interestingly,
March 9, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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kunzlab.bsky.social
that gene expression works close to perfection, especially protein synthesis is a messy business. Bacteria use protein mistranslation since increased proteome plasticity can aid survival under stress conditions. The relationship of plant cells and their bacterial-type organelles towards protein
March 9, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Lost in translation? Chloroplasts can handle slang!
New study from our group at @lmumuenchen.bsky.social with great collabs @plantproteomics-ms.bsky.social @ifink-lab.bsky.social bsky.social‬ @hhu.de @wsupullman.bsky.social https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.07.642005v1 🧵Often assumed
March 9, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Please read here the summary of our news on DOG1 and its signaling pathway via AHG1 and AFPs in Arabidopsis 🌱seeds. www.uni-muenster.de/news/view.ph... @uni-muenster.de #seeds #plants @seedbarrett.bsky.social @ifink-lab.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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DOG1 controls dormancy independently of ABA core signaling kinases regulation by preventing AFP dephosphorylation through AHG1 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#plantscience #phospho #proteomics
DOG1 controls dormancy independently of ABA core signaling kinases regulation by preventing AFP dephosphorylation through AHG1
DOG1’s autonomous signaling pathway allows seeds to regulate dormancy and stress traits independently.
www.science.org
March 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Our labrodog also highly recommends reading about DOG1 because it’s important for seed storage, agriculture and our food! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #plantscience #seeds
March 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Our manuscript on the DOG1 dormancy pathway is out! 🥳 It started with a phosphoproteome when working @mpipz.bsky.social and 10 years of hard work @uni-muenster.de from Guillaume Nee with Thorben Krüger and more to prove that AFPs are target! #proteomics #seed www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
DOG1 controls dormancy independently of ABA core signaling kinases regulation by preventing AFP dephosphorylation through AHG1
DOG1’s autonomous signaling pathway allows seeds to regulate dormancy and stress traits independently.
www.science.org
March 3, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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We propose that the molecular separation of the DOG1-PP2C module from the regulation of SnRK2 activity keeps seed ABA signaling primed independently of the dormancy level. This allows non-dormant seeds to quickly reinduce ABA responses and arrest germination upon sensing stress.
March 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Very happy that our story on dormancy control by DOG1-PP2C is now published in Science Advances. We found that DOG1 prevents the activation of AFPs by AHG1. This is the result of a great team effort led by Guillaume Née. Summary of key findings below🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org
DOG1 controls dormancy independently of ABA core signaling kinases regulation by preventing AFP dephosphorylation through AHG1
DOG1’s autonomous signaling pathway allows seeds to regulate dormancy and stress traits independently.
www.science.org
March 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Today we celebrate a wide diversity in plant sciences at the Symposium of our institute at @unicologne.bsky.social with support from @ceplas.bsky.social & @trr341.bsky.social #PlantScience
February 20, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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INPPO 2025 would like welcome aboard Sponsors @preomics (Preomics) and @cytiva.bsky.social (Cytiva)

!! Deadline for early registration ends Feb 15th 2025 !!

See you in Banff!
February 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Please read here about our collaborative work with Ag Kudla @uni-muenster.de on the phosphocode of these two Calcium-dependent kinases. With the power of MS-based functional #proteomics www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A bi-kinase module sensitizes and potentiates plant immune signaling
Mutual activation of a Ca2+ sensing bi-kinase module potentiates NADPH oxidase activation to facilitate systemic immunity.
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February 18, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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A team headed by biologist Prof Jörg Kudla has identified important components and mechanisms of the molecular machinery that transmits information about a pathogen encounter within the plant organism. A calcium-activated “bi-kinase module” serves as a central molecular switch. #Biology
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A team headed by biologist Prof Jörg Kudla has identified important components and mechanisms of the molecular machinery that transmits information about a pathogen encounter within the plant organism...
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January 27, 2025 at 12:17 PM